iPad Trajectory: What’s next?

I will not muse about “the next iPad,” the iPad mini, the iPad Air (my personal favorite concept!) or the iPad 4. Instead, I will look at a few of the ways Apple is strengthening its mobile muscle even more by leveraging additional productivity features to the iPad–with and without the help of strategic friends.

I know. The much anticipated iPhone 5 launch just happened, so why in the world am I writing about iPads? Well, during the last several weeks I have been experimenting with using two iPad devices simultaneously and it made me wonder if this dual use was something Apple had anticipated from the beginning.

Maybe.

An app our company has on the App Store is being used by a trial team to benefit their jury selection process in ways we never imagined. Inspiring to see! Therefore, it seems both plausible and possible that Apple did not expect gadget lovers like me using multiple tablets at once.

That’s right – your iPad snaps right into the docking station and now you’ve got a whole new way to enjoy the benefits of LinkedIn, Hookflash and your iPad. Trent Johnson, CEO of Hookflash told me to expect this in the market by January of 2013. The team at Hookflash has a great vision for where this technology is going in the near future. I would recommend keeping an eye on what they are doing…”